Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. The books included are on a wide variety of subjects and present many different points of view. The opinions expressed in these books do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial board of JBHE. Here are the latest selections.

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An Aristocracy of Color: Race and Reconstruction in California and the West, 1850-1890 by D. Michael Bottoms (University of Oklahoma Press)	Beyond Stereotypes in Black and White: How Everyday Leaders Can Build Healthier Opportunities for African American Boys and Men by Henrie Treadwell (Praeger)	Black Male Teachers: Diversifying the United States’ Teacher Workforce edited by Chance W. Lewis and Ivory Toldson (Emerald Group)
Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves: Women Writers and French Colonial Slavery by Doris Y. Kadish (Liverpool University Press)	Martin Luther King Jr., Homosexuality, and the Early Gay Rights Movement: Keeping the Dream Straight? by Michael G. Long (Palgrave Macmillan)	Perceiving Pain in African Literature by Zoe Norridge (Palgrave Macmillan)
Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing by Justin Gifford (Temple University Press)	Publishing Blackness: Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850 edited by George Hutchinson and John K. Young (University of Michigan Press)	Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South by Gavin Wright (Belknap Press)
The Color of Sound: Race, Religion, and Music in Brazil by John Burdick (New York University Press)	To Do This, You Must Know How: Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition by Lynn Abbot and Doug Seroff (University Press of Mississippi)	Watching While Black: Centering the Television of Black Audiences edited by Beretta W. Smith-Shomade (Rutgers University Press)